I have built the paypal's parallel payment option into my website. Here a % goes into my website paypal account and remaining goes into one of the merchant's paypal account. When i need to issue refunds, how can i make it work where both my portion and merchants portion are refunded automatically? I tried the paypal refund APIs but it only works for my portion, but for the merchants portion it says i dont have permission.
You would need to have the other merchant's that you are splitting the payment with, grant API permissions to your API to be able to issue refunds. Otherwise, you would not be able to issue refunds from their account with your credentials.
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I've had an NVP integration running for a year, and it's been great.
However, PayPal have now changed the page my customers see and the new style forces a user to create an account.
My customers are older people and don't want to sign up for an account. Previously they didn't have to
Is there anything I can do to make this optional again?
Thanks
It's important to remember that Guest Checkout feature for Website Payment Standard and Express Checkout is not guaranteed for every transaction.
To control the risk for merchant, PayPal may close the guest checkout function for some special countries or districts buyers and the buyer will be asked to create a PayPal account.
If possible, please consider using the PayPal Payment PRO product line, where merchants can accept Credit Card directly within their own website.
I tried to integrate paypal in my website and I was able to implement it . I tested the transcations with sandbox account provided by paypal. For each transaction, buyer need to enter his credit card details or other paypal account informations. So I would like to store the user credentials in my database and then at the time of transaction, make the buyer proceed with transaction without entering details again. Can you please suggest if there is any possibility for implementing this or any suggestions to do so? All suggestions are welcome.
You wouldn't store the buyer's PayPal credentials (because that's about the worst crime you can commit in internet security), but you can create a billing agreement with the buyer. The billing agreement would allow you to charge the buyer, at a later date, without having to send the buyer to PayPal again to approve the payment. This page tells you how to do it: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/express-checkout/integration-guide/ECReferenceTxns/
I need to know if the following scenario can be developed.
I have a website where the mode of payment is pay-by-usage. So when the customer exceeds a particular amount, I need to charge his PayPal account automatically. Is this possible in the PayPal API?
You can use PayPal Adaptive payment and there is an option to charge user account automatically. It is called PayPal Pre Approval payment.
In the first phase the user has to authorize your app to perform payment onbehalf of user. During this authorization step, you will get and authorize pre approval key. Later you could automatically charge user PayPal account using this key.
Requirements state that I build a form that collects user's PayPal login info and charges the user's PayPal account a fixed price without having the user leave the website.
I am beginning to think this is not possible. Can someone kindly suggest a solution that comes close to meeting the requirements? I am not certain what's possible and what's not possible with PayPal.
There isn't a solution for what you are trying to do. In order for the buyer to login and pay with PayPal, they would have to leave your site and go to the PayPal login page. You could set up a billing agreement so that they only have to log into PayPal once. With a billing agreement, you would be able to charge the buyer's PayPal account when you are needing to. You would just need to have the buyer go through the flow initially and get sent over to PayPal to login and agreen to the billing agreement. Then when you want to charge them again in the future, you would just need to reference the billing agreement id.
The closest solution to having the user pay without leaving the website is PayPal digital goods express checkout.
Here is an example to show you how it works:
http://jmsliu.com/1307/integrate-paypal-digital-goods-express-checkout-into-website.html
we have set up Paypal as a hook into an e-commerce application, where users just enter their paypal account, and we link their clients through to their Paypal account when buying products.
This works great, and paypal asks you to login to pay for your purchases.
But we don't want clients to be forced to create a paypal account, just to make a purchase.
Does website payments standard API actually support paying without a paypal account?
At the moment this is a real showstopper for us.
Check out PayPal Adaptive Accounts. You can create PP accounts for your users. The only step they'll have to complete at PayPal is creating a password. Once the account is created you might need send the user back through a checkout flow.
Adaptive Accounts
Use the Adaptive Accounts API to build applications that create and manage PayPal accounts. Merchants and developers can use the API to create PayPal accounts, add payment methods to accounts, and verify a PayPal account status.
Paypal is a very useful payment service gateway, exactly because the customer does not need to enter a credit-card number.
What we do, is offer Paypal as an option. We allow credit-card entry as well. In order to evaluate the credit-card for validity etc., we interface with the bank that supports our account and let their system do the checks. Another option would be "Cash on Delivery".